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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:14:32 AM EDT

Based off what you think is a good commander. Name some them that you think are the best.

ETA:

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:15:33 AM EDT

[#1]

Alexander the Great
Oda Nobunaga
Stonewall Jackson
John Singleton Mosby
James Mattis

Chesty Puller

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:15:57 AM EDT

[#2]

Dick Winters, RIP

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:16:03 AM EDT

[#3]

0bama the Mighty

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:20:13 AM EDT

[#4]

Francis "Swamp Fox" Marion

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:20:59 AM EDT

[#5]

George Washington! In War & Peace!

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:23:51 AM EDT

[#6]

David Hackworth.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:27:02 AM EDT

[#7]

William T. Sherman and Curtis Lemay.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:27:08 AM EDT

[#8]

Colin Powell

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:27:17 AM EDT

[#9]

Mosby.
Daniel Morgan.
Themistocles.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:27:34 AM EDT

[#10]

Ok, I will be one of the first to say it:

Adolph Hitler

The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:28:29 AM EDT

[#11]

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:28:36 AM EDT

[#12]

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:28:55 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
William T. Sherman and Curtis Lemay.

+ 87

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:29:22 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
Ok, I will be one of the first to say it:

Adolph Hitler

The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so.

He wasn't a military commander.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:30:22 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Ok, I will be one of the first to say it:

Adolph Hitler

The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so.

He wasn't a military commander.

That didn't stop him from making himself one.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:30:24 AM EDT

[#16]

Patton
Dick Winters
Rommel

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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:30:57 AM EDT

[#17]

The really sad thing is that there are so many we will never know about....

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:31:14 AM EDT

[#18]

1. Patton
2. Dick Winters
3. Robert E. Lee

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:33:07 AM EDT

[#19]

Patton by far. Did more with less, regardless of conditions and never said he couldn't.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:37:27 AM EDT

[#20]

Gustav Adolphus of Sweden

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:40:22 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
William T. Sherman and Curtis Lemay.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:44:40 AM EDT

[#22]

I'll go out on a limb and say George Marshall.

Not so much for direct command in battle, but for within 4 years turning a 3rd rate at best US Army into the most potent fighting force the world had ever seen.

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Posted: 10/3/2011 6:45:23 AM EDT

[#23]

Genghis Khan

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:47:15 AM EDT

[#24]

What, no love for the Navy?

Acting on incorrect information, Zumwalt gave an order that may have ended up killing his own son, though he couldn't know that at the time. Tragic.

And of course-

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:50:05 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
[span]

What, no love for the Navy?[div]

[div]

Themistocles was in the Athenian navy.

Posted: 10/3/2011 6:56:25 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:

Quoted:

[span]

What, no love for the Navy?[div]

[div]

Themistocles was in the Athenian navy.

ahhh, you went right over my head with that one.

off to wikipedia!

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:00:46 AM EDT

[#27]

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Stonewall Jackson

Robert E. Lee

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:02:50 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
http://www.americanrevival.org/csa/photos/confederates/Forrest1.jpg
Nathan Bedford Forrest

http://www.americanrevival.org/csa/photos/confederates/Jackson3.jpg
Stonewall Jackson

http://www.americanrevival.org/csa/photos/confederates/LeeBoots.jpg
Robert E. Lee

N.B Forrest, great tactician with about a 2nd grade education level.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:03:39 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
William T. Sherman and Curtis Lemay.

Yep.

Rommel did some pretty impressive shit as a junior officer back in WWI as well.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:08:47 AM EDT

[#30]

To name a few....

Nathanial Greene

Joshua Chamberlain

John J. Pershing

Bill Halsey

Hal Moore

Allen West

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:15:57 AM EDT

[#31]

Hannibal Barca

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:17:03 AM EDT

[#32]

That's an impossible one but I am partial to Robert E. Lee.

And I'm a yankee!!

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:18:05 AM EDT

[#33]

Robin Olds

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:21:01 AM EDT

[#34]

Adolph Hitler

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:21:59 AM EDT

[#35]

Genghis Khan

and

William Tecumseh Sherman

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:22:32 AM EDT

[#36]

Alexander, Genghis Khan, Subedei, Napoleon, Cyrus the Great, Charlemagne.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:25:17 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

Robin Olds

http://www.lucky-devils.net/Oldspic.jpg

I know I'll be in the minority on this one but...hell yeah!

Operation Bolo was genius in action.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:25:52 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Ok, I will be one of the first to say it:

Adolph Hitler

The guy almost took over the entire world. Had he made a few different decisions, he may have done so.

He wasn't a military commander.

True, but he would disagree with you though.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:26:55 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

That's an impossible one but I am partial to Robert E. Lee.

And I'm a yankee!!

This

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:34:32 AM EDT

[#40]

Robert Rogers (Rogers' Rangers)

Tecumseh

George Rogers Clark

Rochambeau (without whom, Washington would have gotten his ass kicked)

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:36:28 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:

Quoted:
William T. Sherman and Curtis Lemay.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:37:12 AM EDT

[#42]

Julius Caesar

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:38:32 AM EDT

[#43]

Thomas J. Jackson

As one of his prisoner's said; "He ain't much to look at, but if he was our general we wouldn't be in this fix."

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:42:59 AM EDT

[#44]

Lee did a lot with not a lot to work with.

If the South had the guns and amount of people as the North, the CSA would still be around.
––––

Kahn pretty much overran everywhere he went.

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Posted: 10/3/2011 7:47:44 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Lee did a lot with not a lot to work with.

If the South had the guns and amount of people as the North, the CSA would still be around.

––––

Kahn pretty much overran everywhere he went.

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Too bad Lee didn't take up the offer. Some guy from South Africa offered him AKs.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:48:50 AM EDT

[#46]

Small Unit commander:

COL Gregory Coddington

Old School:

Genghis Khan

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:50:12 AM EDT

[#47]

Ole Chesty.

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:57:13 AM EDT

[#48]

Heinz Guderian

Posted: 10/3/2011 7:59:29 AM EDT

[#49]

Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz

Posted: 10/3/2011 8:00:29 AM EDT

[#50]

Hannibal

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